Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
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Gill's Exposition
Also I set watchmen over you,.... That is, prophets, as Jarchi; true prophets, as Kimchi; such an one was Ezekiel, Jer 3:17. The Targum interprets it teachers; such were the apostles and first…
Barnes' Notes
Watchmen - The prophets Isa 52:8. The second of the trumpet - This was the signal for flight Jer 6:1; Amo 3:6. Similarly the prophet’s warning was to move men to escape from God’s judgments.
The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line.
I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the…
Cambridge Bible
I set " I ever raised up," Dr. See on Jer 6:6.
watchmen the prophets; so Eze 3:17; Eze 33:7.
the sound of the trumpet Cp. Jer 6:6; Amo 3:6.
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